Telematics Update: This week Accel Telecom reintroduced the carphone for the 21st century in-line with the growing market for connected vehicle systems.

London, UK (PRWEB) February 26, 2013

Consumers and industry executives may have thought that the smartphone revolution had permanently done away with the carphone; those clunky relics that, back in the '80s and '90s, were as big as a shoe and lodged somewhere near the driver’s elbow. This week, Accel Telecom reintroduced the carphone in 21st-century form. Named VOYAGER, the device is the first standalone connected car smartphone device to hit the market.

Susan Kuchinskas looks at why phone-based apps combined with embedded services will remain the dominant telematics paradigm for the next five years. Just look at the most important telematics applications: navigation and usage-based insurance, or UBI. The phone dominates navigation and it's emerging in UBI. read on

Susan Kuchinskas looks at what Apple’s and Google’s forays into the connected car market mean for telematics. Apple fans were delighted at the company's recent announcement that it had signed deals with eight automakers read on

Susan Kuchinskas looks at how different types of connectivity and applications can complement one another in the connected vehicle while the sexy story is infotainment services—connecting the car to Twitter—there's a compelling safety story in networking the safety systems already in cars and the new ones being developed. Continental, for example, has introduced ContiGuard, a concept that will integrate active and passive safety systems, cameras, sensors, V2V and V2X communications, and the HMI. The goal of the technology, which continues to evolve, is to reduce accidents and damage. read on

As owner of some emerging 4g properties, I wonder what future do I have with my properties in 2012? Should I build them, sell them or hold them?Here is a list of my 4g properties:

vo4g.com(voice over 4G) May be the final step in 4G or LTE progression. Vo4g may provide a solution for a single standard across nations for voice and devices.
vo4g.com may be one of the best 4g domain properties.

ANALYST NOTE"The adoption of over-the-top (OTT) mobile VoIP services is growing rapidly but it is not without challenges. With free applications and extremely low revenue from users, it is tricky for application providers without the deep pockets of larger companies like Google, Microsoft, and Telefónica to have a sustainable long-term business model. Despite the fact that we expect mobile VoIP subscribers to grow nearly 10-fold from 2010 to 2015, there is relatively little money to be made from it in the near term," poses Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research.

Susan Kuchinskas explores how machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is creating an ‘Internet of things’ and what it means for the telematics industry. The Internet is typically experienced as a virtual realm of information, entertainment, and social networking. But as mobile technology becomes more and more sophisticated, an ‘Internet of things’ is emerging—devices and physical objects that have their own IP addresses and/or act as nodes on data networks that may be local, regional, or global. Read on

Susan Kuchinskas looks at the market opportunities of brought-in devices versus installed screens for back-seat entertainment.There's plenty of infotainment already being had back in coach class, thanks to handheld devices. Who needs a rear screen when you have an iPad?read on